The Wachovia SOA adventure

The 4th largest bank in the US, Wachovia, has started implementing a full on, end to end, IBM mainframe SOA with zAAP and Websphere. The results so far are good. Read more at this mainframe blog . Everyone is going to be watching this one very carefully – their plan takes them through to 2008 and their expectations are high – they hope to cut costs by a massive 40%
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Wachovia are also being innovative in their use of bonus payments to developers who adopt enthusiastically the new skillsets and get involved in the forging the new SOA solutions. Read more on this at aspnews

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William Hoffman
http://www.mainframe-upgrade.com/